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[perfectlovevn]

Perfect Love Devlog #56

Rip Alpha, cannot believe she died by tree. Anyways I had terrible allergies and I got sick (?) for the last three days so most of the progress I have is that one day where I ended up drawing a to one day. But that does mean that I’ve finished up another route and I just need to add images for a different route/rewrite some dialogue.

For future stuff I’m probably gonna randomize some of the mini guys you see when trying to exit the game so that for extras it will choose a different one randomly, the same way I did the pronouns. I think it might be a good touch. I’m also going to start coding in that one scene with Emil and Manipulation Milo so I can finally answer that one ask.

[alphasmoonlit-selfships]

Alpha’s New Selfship Promo Card!

Howdy everyone, both new and old followers/friends! I went on ahead and changed my user after almost a year or two, this time with the addition of -selfships in the title!

✧ The name’s Alphita, or Dany too, I am 27 years old, Hispanic, she/her/they/them petite little lass!

✦ I’ve been into self-shipping a lot without realizing there was a term for it. Self-inserting has always just been a thing for me since I was in middle school and thought it was the coolest thing ever, which is still the coolest thing anyone can do! 🥰

✧ I am more than okay with sharing f/o’s; I am slightly hesitant with newer people, but overall okay nonetheless, especially if we are familiar! My main romantic f/o’s are Atsushi Nakajima from Bungou Stray Dogs 🌙🐯 and Jason “Jaystorm” Grey, from my personal stories The Legendary Wolf Warriors  🐺⚡️(not sharable, he is my oc f/o!).

✦ Please check out my Carrd if you’d like to know more about me or my additional f/o’s! It includes my DNI and other Tumblr blogs! I highly suggest looking through it to be sure we are all comfortable with each other! ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

✧ I also do have a nsfw blog that is more for alpha's spicy thoughts and spicy art~ By all means you are free to DM me if you'd like to know! For those above 18+ only! Graci! 🌸 I will block any minors or non-selfship blogs or if I’m not entirely familiar with you! (-`д´-) 💢

It is a pleasure to get to know other self-shippers and know that I greatly support you and your f/os! You are darlings and very much canon, there is no one they love more than you!! 💖✨ always remember that! ♡｡ﾟ.(*♡´‿` 人´‿` ♡*)ﾟ♡ °・

✨🌙 Atsushi Nakajima is my dearest Moonlight, Mi Tigre Precioso; te amo siempre, to the stars and back | Jason Grey is my soothing gentle Storm, my dearest amor, and my sweetest wolf and my forever and always  ⛈✨

Thank you! Feel free to ask, DM, or gush with me if you're comfortable talking about your f/o's!! I always look forward to making friends! 💖 May y’all have a beautiful one! ☀️⭐️🌙

Posted: 08/19/22 Update: 02/15/24

[perfectlovevn]

Perfect Love Devlog #37

I'm going on a family weekend trip so I have to write this before I get to the hotel. I've been working on more sprites and whatnot for Alpha, and I was able to add Seph and Alpha's mini sprites floating around for the exiting screen as well. So once again for Seph's route, all I really need to do is figure out a good design for Cryptic.

I made an update post on itch.io as well explaining what I was going to be doing, including some of the pictures I've used for current devlogs. I hope that when I get back and by next week I'll have mostly what I need to finish Alpha's route. I also need to have the namebox made for her. Not sure what exactly I'm going to use though designwise, but hopefully it will be good.

Since we're going back and forth on which characters to use I think I might do Ryan's route next. Not sure if I want to make a new sprite for him or not though, but I'll have to see just how versatile the current sprites are.

[perfectlovevn]

Perfect Love Devlog #35

I spent a day seriously trying to figure out how to get multiple frames for the mouth speaking and then suddenly I figured it out in two seconds on how to do it. Such is the life of making a visual novel. The clip shown above was just me testing if the mouth flaps actually work the way I want it to, which it does. I need to do some more fixing like making sure Alpha's name doesn't show up until she introduces herself and you know actually making sure she appears when she needs to be there, and to make a new nametag for her since she's a special character.

I added in some other mouth sprites after this for this and another sprite I had, as well as drawing a couple of sprites relating to some of her actions. I will say that I will probably spend the most time on this specific story on sprites since a lot of it will be animated. I'll try not to overdo it since it is still a single scene she's in, and I have like a ton of other extra stories I need to do. I still need to actually do the flooaty exit sprite for Seph that I keep forgetting to do.

I'm thinking... after I do this one, I can do the Ryan story next. I should have all the sprites for that one already so it should be just me coding it in instead of drawing it (which I'm sure I'll be sick of doing once I'm done with all of Alpha's sprites)

[perfectlovevn]

After completing the perfect love extras, what is the concept of your next game if you already have one?

This game was actually the game I was working on before I started on Perfect Love. Alpha's Day Off is completely different in tone to Perfect Love in that it's much more light hearted. It follows a girl named Alpha who is hanging out with one of her four friends. The idea is basically to showcase these characters and their interactions as well as the general lore of this story. I've had these OCs for a while so I really wanted to be able to showcase them. For those wondering, this is the world where Valli comes from.

I originally was coding this one in renpy where I was able to learn the basics, and I actually have about half the script done. But then I got too big brained and decided that I'm going to try to make this game in Godot instead. Horrible idea, I know considering I've never used Godot in my life. I kept getting hauntings of trying to learn how to make mini games (though hopefully ones that aren't extremely complicated) so we will see how long it takes me to get anything done. If this game takes too long, I may just decide to make a game with the people from First Impression (the world from Desmond's game).

Anyways, I hope we can see how it goes!

[perfectlovevn]

Perfect Love Devlog #38

This gif has a horrible particle effect, but in the game it looks completely fine, just trust me here. Anyways, I was able to finish up the last sprite for Alpha including some nice blinking effects (which I will use for Gamma's route later on) as well as finish coding that entire route, so that's the four extra scene done. I'll be doing Ryan's scene next which I've decided will completely consist of miniCGs because I love making every single extra scene slightly different and causing problems for myself.

In addition, I went back to the extra scenes that I've done and did a quick check, realized I didn't code in the two monsters for Seph's route, went on an entire binge for that and then realized on Iya and Desmond's route that I didn't end up coding in the nametag for Iya and did that. Emil's route I also need to redraw one of the miniCgs, so there's also that. Also went to a museum and Oberon festival with my parents and had a little pool party on Friday. Fun times.

[perfectlovevn]

Perfect Love Devlog #33

This gif is about how I feel for the past two weeks, mostly because I've been fighting anxiety for those two weeks and the heat. Luckily I've beaten that anxiety back into submission because I'm a winner, so I should be fine barring the heat doesn't kill me next. Please don't worry, I am feeling much better than I have been for the last past two weeks, barring how freaking hot it is of course.

In terms of drawing everything, besides figuring out what Cryptic's design is going to be, I think I've drawn all of the mini CGs for Seph's route, though I have yet to implement it into the game (because the computer I use to code everything is upstairs and it is like living in a sauna up there, so I've been staying downstairs). When that's done, I should be good to do SFX and Music for that route later. I'm playing Bayonetta for the first time, so I probably will be taking inspiration from the various angel monsters that she fights for inspiration for Cryptic since they have some baller designs there.

I know I said I was going to work on Valli's route next, but I still haven't figured out how I'm going to get the person she's talking about to show visually on screen (I want to draw him, but the entire thing is done via phone call so unless I can figure out a way to do it via hologram or something, I don't think it's going to happen), so I've skipped over to another scene involving PreMilo. This scene actually runs parallel to Emil's scene, since it's because of Alpha (that's the girl up there) that PreMilo is kind of late (sort of). Alpha's sprites are going to be kind of animated because I want to practice doing sprite animations. I'll be doing it for the next game that I'll be working on, Alpha's Day Out, so this is a prototyping of some sort (without coloring which is...also something I'm doing for the next game...how could I do this to myself). You actually can see her in a test scene I used in the game files as well as some unused image files I have in there. Easter eggs galore!

[perfectlovevn]

Perfect Love Devlog #36

This part is taking a bit longer than I thought, but that's also because I've been animated a bunch of different sprites for Alpha. I need to probably do at least a couple more, but we are getting there. I spent this time coding in some of the different events for this route. But you did see that I fulfilled my promise of drawing in those new mouth sprites, for that extra talking point.

I'm realizing I'm still missing Alpha and Seph's screens for exiting the scenes to the main menu/game. I guess I have to draw those at some point, as well as Alpha's name tag. And I still need to figure out what Cryptic looks like. I should be playing Bayonetta for ideas but I'm so god awful at fighting the angels and bosses. I ended up just playing a bunch of Road Trip to Canada instead.